I had been a seller on Ebay at one time and I made almost 2,000.00 worth of sales back in the fall of 2005. I used Paypal as a conduit to collect the money from the buyers. On my auctions it clearly stated that I would only ship out once a week, on Saturdays. One guy, had bought something from me and paid like on a Sunday evening. When I sent him the invoice from Ebay I even put a little reminder in the invoice that any payments made from a Saturay afternoon until he following Friday evening would be shipped out the FOLLOWING Saturday. Not hard to understand right? Well, apparently this guy got all pissy about it not being sent out immediately on Monday morning first thing - I work full time and my work hours are the same as the post office so I didnt have time or inclination to use my lunch time to go to the PO and stand in line. So, on Monday morning - maybe a whole 8 hours after the auction ended and the guy paid me on Paypal, he sent in a complaint to Paypal for NON DELIVERY of merchandsie - uh, hello! First off - he didnt even give me 8 hours, let alone til the following Saturday to send the items. At that point, I had already sent out the weeks auctions prior to that, I suddenly started getting chargebacks from Paypal and negative balances!!! I had sent tons of items out prior to this one ass* jumping the gun and Paypal was refusing to release the funds to me until I sent them paperwork - I sent them the paperwork asked for and then they wanted more and then more and then finally I got so fed up with Paypal that I asked them if they wanted my firstborn child also? Bottom line, Paypal KEPT the money in THEIR account, I sent out tons of items - most of which I was able to retreive from the USPS because I was not about to send out items to people when Paypal had my money. The people understandably got pissed but I told them I couldnt refund what I didnt have. Paypal had the money - I didnt receive a dime. They paid Paypal, not me - not until Paypal releases the funds does a seller get paid. And I NEVER got paid.
So months later, here comes NCO Financials with a letter to my work address - that is th address that is on my credit card - which has a limit of ONE dollar on it - it is one of those preload ones - NEVER will I allow Paypal to rip me off again like they did with a real credit card that they allowed some hackster to use and rack up about 6,000.00 worth of charges on it and when I complained all I got was a Gee, thats TOO bad - sorry about that, but nothing we can do about it.
I just called NCO and gleefully gave them my bankruptcy case number and my attorneys name - screw them and screw Paypal too. Paypal HAD 1300 of mine - they never gave me any money so why should I have to pay for any of it?
Sue
Decatur, Illinois
U.S.A.
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